What's Required Each public agency must ensure that the child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, if appropriate, health, vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities.
What We Do
The evaluation specialist assigned to the campus serves on the Intervention Assistance Team (IAT) at the tier three level and becomes the case manager for students referred for all special education evaluations (except for students referred for a speech evaluation only).
Although not the case manager, the Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) should be invited to all IAT meeting at tier three when behavior or suspected autism is the primary area of concern.
If the referral is for a student suspected of having an emotional disturbance, autism, or other pervasive developmental disorder, the evaluation specialist should immediately request the campus LSSP to be a part of the IAT. Once the IAT committee decides to refer the student for evaluation, the evaluation specialist will submit an LSSP Request in the SharePoint and an LSSP (usually the campus LSSP) will be assigned to conduct the following activities:
obtain parent consent for evaluation
observe and evaluate the student in various school settings
complete the emotional/behavioral, conclusions, and summary components of the Full Initial Independent Evaluaiton (FIIE) report in the FIE Writer
MDT the FIIE with the evaluation specialist and other evaluation personnel
attend the ARD/IEP committee meeting to review and interpret the results of the emotional/behavioral component as well as conclusions and recommendations
What's Required
Each public agency must ensure that the child is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability, including, if appropriate, health, vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general intelligence, academic performance, communicative status, and motor abilities.
What We Do
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